Start-ups and Entrepreneurship

Startup Safary is a multi-dimensional event that guides its participants through the startup ecosystem of the hosting city. It started in 2013 in Berlin, Germany from members of the city’s startup ecosystem. Since then the event has expanded to other European cities and from 2014 it is also taking place in Athens, Greece, a city with the thriving startup ecosystem the last years, especially during the financial crisis.

Although Greece has a long history of entrepreneurship and doing business and although the first online companies started appearing in the country as early as 1998-1999, following the dot.com rise in the USA, it was only after 2010 with the economic crisis that startups started taking off. Five years in, Greece has a developing startup scene, with a lot of companies scoring big funding rounds or acquisitions, while many initiatives have started aiming at supporting new entrepreneurs.

This year’s event is dedicated to female entrepreneurship. Three dynamic and charismatic women are leading the event this year: